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Setup Dell C1660W printer in Ubuntu

To be honest, this post is more or less a self-memo for myself. Nevertheless, this might be still helpful for others.
While drivers for almost every hardware components or peripheral devices are automatically detected and installed in Windows, this is often not the case in Ubuntu. For instance, my Dell C1660W printer was not working in a plug & play fashion on Ubuntu 17.10.
In order to setup this printer, I had to do the following steps:

The printer is now ready to use. However, the driver does not fully work as expected. As an example, after every printing job, I have to restart the printer. Otherwise, the printer is simply rejecting the job, or it prints the job with some minutes delay outta nowhere.

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Machine Learning Software Engineer from southern Germany, currently living in Munich. Studied Applied Computer Science at HTWG Constance, Worcester Polytechnic Institute in MA, USA and received the Masters degree at Technical University of Munich. From 2012 to 2016, I have been a scholarship holder of Friedrich Ebert Foundation and an active member of the Work Group Internet. Beside that, I'm very interested in Machine Learning, sports and photography.